禁錮的婚姻模式－－談凱塞琳‧安‧波特小說中已婚婦女的地位與婚姻問題

Marital Enclosure in K.A. Porter's Fiction

凱塞琳‧安‧波特對於人們之稱她為女性作家或女性主義者，深表不同意；她覺得那多少帶有些許貶抑、歧視的口吻。雖然如此，她確實非常關心女性在現今社會中的地位或定位。她大部分的作品都是以女性為主，企圖挑戰男性論述，並且提醒讀者們注意潛藏的父權作風。波特不只關注年輕女性在傳統文化下的成長過程，也揭示婚姻生活層面上的苦悶與失望。本文的重點放在波特小說中女性於婚姻關係上所遇到的種種問題，擬運用安妮絲‧普芮特的女性原型理論來探討其小說世界中已婚婦女在男性主導的社會裡之定位和身分，以進一步瞭解波特對婚姻制度的看法。

Reluctant to be listed as a 'woman writer' or a 'feminist,' Katherine Anne Porter thinks her works female-orientated. She is really concerned about the female positions or identities in the contemporary world. Most of her stories are women-centered. She tries to defy male-dominated interpretations and to alert her readers to underlying patriarchal assumptions. She not only examines the frustrating process of young girls' initiation into womanhood as it is culturally defined but also reveals the bitterness and disillusion within marriage circle. This paper focuses on Porter's bildungsroman fiction of marriage. With the feminine archetypal approach expounded by Annis Pratt, I intend to penetrate Porter's fictional world vision of married women's positions or identities in the male-dominated society and to further the realization of her attitude toward marriage.